Summer Festivals 2014

Lots of planning for Summer 2014.

Photos link you straight to the websites.

These are the festivals we will be attending, so far... 

May

Cosmic Puffin

Bearded Theory

(With Angel Gardens :))

Glastonbudget

June

Symmetry


Willowman

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Glastonbury 

July

Blissfields

(With Angel Gardens:))

Penn

Barefoot Festival

August



Y Not

http://www.bristolballoonfiesta.co.uk

Bristol Balloon Fiesta



Car-Fest

Alt Fest

Greenbelt

...and still more to confirm! Summer 2014 is going to be super.

Mandala Painted Tents

Easter weekend and it was time to check our festival cafe tents.

We decided to paint something I have doodled and hennaed lots of times... beautiful mandalas.

We started by painting white ornate frames around our blackboard menu wall and then added more frames to lots of new blackboards.

Outside, the mandalas and Kindred Cafe sign were primed in white, with the plan to add bright thickened car spray paints for the colour details. We then left these overnight to dry.

The following morning, the vintage effect of the Kindred Cafe sign really stood out and was enough for me to completely scrap the bright colourful plan. Just tidying and edging and fixing a huge drippy mess and we began again on the second tent.

The final tent now has a painted fireplace and candlesticks. There'll be carpet and low tables and floor cushions in here, the creative play tent, and new blackboard painted tables for children to chalk on.

We now have, new to us, recycled bistro tables from last year's Olympic Games too.

Disney Art Inspiration February

February whizzed by in a blur! We had a taste of Summer in Florida and was able to research ideas for our children's festival cafe, if you want great service it is the place to go.  

The Disney parades were inspirational and I came away with so many ideas for future art workshops.

Patterns - Colour  - Detail

Look at those legs!

Disney's It's a Small World was designed by artist Mary Blair, and her designs have inspired me to add my interpretation of her designs to the cafe tents.

Travelling gave me time to doodle in my notebook...

...and has inspired a new series of paintings called Wild Women. More news on these very soon.